Today is an important day in the American holiday calendar marking the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., who fought the forces of racism, saying, "I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
Sadly the forces of hatred ended the peacemaker's life in Memphis. I continue to uphold his path of pacifism, however the hatred burns brighter than a KKK cross in America.
Yesterday I was speaking with a white friend and said, "I have the day off."
I don't have a job, but I'm taking it off anyway.
"What? National Nigger Day?"
"What did you just say? You're Italian and none of you are white." I malquoted Dennis Hopper's line from TRUE ROMANCE 1993.
"Sorry."
"You better be." Racism has been taught to us whites at an early age and this morning a rich white woman said at the grocery on Myrtle Avenue, "I hate the city. It's so dirty."
She wasn't speaking about the litter, but the filth of the races.
"Just as filthy as you." I cut in front of her and paid for berries. $1. Money is all the rich have and I try not to hate them or white people, because there's nothing wrong with taking off the rich.
Long live the man of peace.
Even dead Martin Luther King Jr. is better company than the filthy rich.
He gave his all for the world.
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